Problems of requirements implementation for the new environmental legislation in energy sector

Abstract

In accordance with the new environmental legislation, the majority of large thermal power plants are classified as the 1st category facilities subject to the strictest environmental requirements. In particular, such enterprises should obtain integrated environmental permits and adopt the best available technologies. In addition, all objects of the 1st category must be equipped with an automatic system for the continuous monitoring and accounting of emissions. The paper analyzes the main methodological and technical problems encountered in the practice of enterprises in the transition to the new principles of environmental valuation and the implementation of the best available technologies, as well as proposes solutions to these problems. The necessity of the National standard development allowing to carry out the choice of the best available technologies for the concrete enterprise taking into account economic expediency of their introduction is shown. A generalized algorithm for determining the compliance of thermal power plants with the principles of the best available technologies in the framework of obtaining a comprehensive environmental permit is developed.